I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically”
Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
“It's the people we love the most who have the greatest capacity to cause us pain...”
Source: All of Me
“It's the people who know you and love you that save you.”
Source: A Heart in a Body in the World
“It's the people who make a place, Lina. And the people here--they understand pain and loss. Which makes them appreciate joy all the more.”
Source: An Hour Unspent
“It's the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.”
Source: Wonder Woman. Warbringer
“It's the people you encounter and seek that can make all the difference.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“It’s the perfect recipe for reducing stress and having a pleasant and productive evening.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“It's the person's subjective perception of danger that determines whether an incident is traumatizing or not.”
Source: Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at ‘our favorite spot,’ and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”
Source: Chicago: City on the Make
“It's the place where dreams end and nightmares begin—it's the world of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).”
“It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.”
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
“It's the pleasures that are shallow and fast-flowing, tending to form and dissolve...The rapids are formed by the youth of pleasures but joy remains a dense rock in the streambed for ages, beyond any erosion..that no rapid can break in the flow of a stream but the rock remaining powerful, breaks up the rapids of pleasures, birthing waterfalls of wisdom that no season can wear away...”
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.”
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interest”
“It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.”
Source: The Notebook
“It’s the press, sister dear. They can print whatever they’d like, but that doesn’t make it the truth."
-A Twisted Case of Murder: A 1920s Murder Mystery (Mrs. Lillywhite Investigates Book 8)”
“It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.”
“It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.”
Source: Fire Study
“It’s the process, how you become a man. Boys cling; men leave.”
Source: World Gone By
“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I’m somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn’t about sex; it’s about all those other things. It’s about power.”
“It's the process of making-do,
of the life I've lived between
breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life
worth living.
I could not bear a life
with everything perfect.”
Source: Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
“It's the process of value stream mapping rather than the maps themselves that carries the greatest power by installing transformational mindsets and behaviors into the DNA of an organization.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“It's the professional shame that hurts the most,' I said to him. I wheeled my bike as we walked along Fleet Street. 'Vanity really. As a neurosurgeon you have to come to terms with ruining people's lives and with making mistakes. But one still feels terrible about it and how much it will cost.”
Source: Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
“It's the pull of love that breaks you free from the pull of earthly desires, making you a flyer in wild spirit of ecstasy.”
“It's the quality of the effort made and not the intensity that determines the best end results.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“It’s the Queen’s English now,’ observed Peter mildly.
‘Is there a difference?’ asked Oundle rhetorically. ‘I fervently hope not.’
‘There will be in time,’ said Peter.
‘That will be deplorable,’ replied Oudle. ‘I shall not myself deviate by a syllable from correct usage.’
‘My language is foul, and yours is Fowler?’ said Peter, and added one of his sudden quirky smiles, ‘or know your Onions.’
This quip crossed the barrier of the table, because the man sitting nearly opposite Peter laughed.
‘Onions?’ said Oudle.
‘C.T. Onions, I imagine,’ said the man opposite. ‘Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.’
‘Oh, I see,’ said Oudle. ‘Very droll.”
Source: The Late Scholar
“It’s the quiet people who have millions of thoughts inside their heads but no one to share them with.”
Source: Veronica
“It’s the reality of life that the body will expire one day. Death for the body is inevitable, but you are not that body nor your old body. Tell me, can the eyes of a dead body see? Can the mouth of a dead body talk?”
Source: Lerkus: A Journey to End All Suffering
“It’s the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, ‘I know who you are. You can’t fool me.”
Source: The Historian
“It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.”
Source: Highway Writings
“It's the right place for me, if you understand what I mean, and I knew that on the first day, in the first hour that I came here. So, in a sense, I was comfortable from the beginning.”
Source: Shantaram
“It's the roaring that makes you hear the stillness in your head louder. I imagine that when I die it's gonna be like that. There's gonna come a big, white sound, like spring rapids or avalanche, and it's gonna sweep me up into it, but it ain't gonna carry me away, no. No, it's gonna make me a part of it. In that moment, when I'm dying for good, I'm gonna be that white water. I'm gonna be that avalanche. Yes, I will. I know how it's going to be. Those last few moments I'm alive, I'm gonna dive down deep into that roaring and I'm gonna swim through until I find the stillness at the raging heart of it.”
Source: The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
“It’s the roots, which are invisible, that make you so invincible.”
“It's the sad people who write the most beautiful poems.”
Source: Veronica
“It’s the same as when I broke the melding bond. Our love doesn’t trump the millions of people in the seven worlds. We must think of the greater good.”
He pulled back from me and before I could blink he held my chin in his gentle grip. “And I will tell you again, Abigail, that nothing trumps our love. Nothing.”
Source: Dronish
“It’s the same everywhere. If you wish to stay relevant, spend time in the local tea shops, where life’s true stories are shared, and the real pulse of society is quietly felt.”
“It’s the same for all media: the first few brushstrokes to the blank canvas satisfy the requirements of many possible paintings, while the last few fit only that painting — they could go nowhere else. The development of an imagined piece into an actual piece is a progression of decreasing possibilities, as each step in execution reduces future options by converting one — and only one — possibility into a reality. Finally, at some point or another, the piece could not be other than it is, and it is done. That moment of completion is also, inevitably, a moment of loss — the loss of all the other forms the imagined piece might have taken.
...Designer Charles Eames, arguably the quintessential Renaissance Man of the twentieth century, used to complain good-naturedly that he devoted only about one percent of his energy to conceiving a design — and the remaining ninety-nine percent to holding onto it as a project ran its course. Small surprise. After all, your imagination is free to race a hundred works ahead, conceiving pieces you could and perhaps should and maybe one day will execute — but not today, not in the piece at hand. All you can work on today is directly in front of you. Your job is to develop an imagination of the possible. A finished piece is, in effect, a test of correspondence between imagination and execution. And perhaps surprisingly, the more common obstacle to achieving that correspondence is not undisciplined execution, but undisciplined imagination. It’s altogether too seductive to approach your proposed work believing your materials to be more malleable than they really are, your ideas more compelling, your execution more refined. As Stanley Kunitz once commented, “The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.” And it’s true, most artists don’t daydream about making great art — they daydream about having made great art.”
Source: Art and Fear
“It’s the same sort of block some people get with the Mean-Value Theorem. Or in Optics when we get to color fields. At a certain level of abstraction it's like the brain recoils.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life... Maybe being perfectly happy is not really the point. Maybe that is only some modern American dream of the point, while the truer measure of humanity is the distance we must travel in our lives, time and again, "twixt two extremes of passion--joy and grief," as Shakespeare put it. However much I've lost, what remains to me is that I can still speak to name the things I love. And I can look for safety in giving myself away to the world's least losable things.”
Source: Small Wonder
“It's the same with [my wife] -- when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I'm not worried with the kind of relationship we've got. Most people, they don't leave room for mistakes in their relationship.”
“It's the same with stories as it is with people. They get better as they get older. But not every story is remembered, and not all people grow old.”
Source: The Speaker
“It's the same with the wound in our hearts. We need to give them our attention so that they can heal. Otherwise the wounds continue to cause us pain. Sometimes for a very long time. We're all going to get hurt. But here's the trick - they also serve an amazing purpose.
When our hearts are wounded that's when they open.
We grow through pain.
We grow through difficult situations.
That's why you have to embrace each and every difficult thing in your life.”
Source: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
“It's the Sea of Restlessness," he said. "Fills you up with go go go, like you're a bowl full of reaching and wanting but you don't know what you're reaching and wanting for.”
“It's the secrecy surrounding drone strikes that's most troubling. . . We don't know the targeting criteria, or whether the rules for CIA and military drone strikes differ; we don't know the details of the internal process through which targets are vetted; we don't know the chain of command, or the details of congressional oversight. The United States does not release the names of those killed, or the location or number of strikes, making it impossible to know whether those killed were legitimately viewed as combatants or not. We also don't know the cost of the secret war: How much money has been spent on drone strikes? What's the budget for the related targeting and intelligence infrastructures? How is the government assessing the costs and benefits of counterterrorism drone strikes? That's a lot of secrecy for a targeted killing program that has reportedly caused the deaths of several thousand people. (117-118)”
Source: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
“It’s the sensation that gives rise to ego or personal identity. All the external and internal experiences of life are experienced only with the sensation.”
“It's the servants of the people who rule the world, not the rulers.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“It's the side dish that pulls everything together. Thousand-layer potatoes fried in duck fat? Phenomenal. Potato chips and caviar? Perfection. Thrice-fried fries with curry mayo? Life-changing. Poutine with cheese curds and gravy? Delectable. Mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving? Irrefutably the best part of the meal. This is a hill I will die on.”
Source: Eat Post Like
“It’s the silence of the night, those few minutes just before the earth wakes and the night walkers have retired
It’s the moist dewy air; a mixture of a dull warmth entangled with a breezy coolness.
It’s the humidity that fills the air and ——
It’s the flashes of the movie projector as another memory emerges”
“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.”
Source: Prince of Thorns